Cash-carrier



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G. T. FARNELL.

CASH CARRIER.

No. 451,471.. Patented May 5,1891.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,471, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed November 6, 1890. Serial No. 370,521- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE THOMAS FAR NELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ooahoma, in' the county of Lenoir and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash and Package Carriers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it 'appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of store-service apparatus in which a fixed-track or wire is used for a traveling car-or cash-carrier; and the novelty will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the accompanying. drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of my improved apparatus, showing a car in position upon the wire or track. Fig. 2 is a front view of the car, showing the track-wire in section. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of the springs for starting the car and actuating the sliding notched block, showing the block in position to be engaged by an incoming car.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A indicates a hanger, which may be of any ordinary or approved construction, and is properly secured and braced to a ceiling in the usual manner. This hanger is provided at its lower end or other suitable point with a lug or arm a, which is designed to co-operate with the pull-cord in releasing the latch-bar from the sliding notched block, as will be presently explained.

13 indicates a track-wire. One end is shown secured to the hanger, the opposite end of said track being similarly secured to a corresponding hanger at the desired point of destination.

0 indicates the car designed to carry cash or packages. This car may be of the usual construction, having the removable receptacle D,'which may be secured to the main frame of the car by a bayonet-slot fastening or other suitable means, and the frame carries the usual traction-wheels b, j ournaled in hangers, so that the car may be properly suspended from the track-wire B and allowed to move freely thereon.

At the opposite ends of the car is pivoted a catch E, which is designed to engage a sliding notched block or hook on the track-wire B. These catches E are preferably of an angular form, so as to have the shouldered or catch portion normally in a horizontal plane and the opposite branch in a vertical plane, as shown at d, so that it may encounter the arm or lug a of the hanger. The catches E are backed by springs e in such a manner as to hold the catch portion or branch in a position as to engage with the sliding notched block or hook on the track and to allow the catch to disengage itself from said hook or block when the depending branch of the catch strikes the lug or arm of the hanger.

Attached to one side of the hanger A at about the same plane as the wire track B is one end of a flat spring F, which is curved outwardly, and thence inwardly and forwardly, and may have the notched block or hook H formed integral therewith or made separately and fixed to the outer end thereof. 1 indicates a pull-cord. This cord passes over a pulleyt' in the hangerA and is attached at its opposite end to the sliding block or hook H, which is notched in its under side and is provided with a hole to receive the wire track B, whereby said block may slide thereon.

The propellingspring G, which is of a similar form to the spring F, and has one end secured to the opposite side of the hanger, is curved outwardly, and thence inwardly and forwardly, so as to overlap the wire 13 in advence of the slide-block H and in a position to bear against one of the angular ends L of the carframe.

Although I have described the car-propelling and sliding-block-actuating springs as formed separately, yet it is obvious that they might be formed of a single piece of material and secured at a suitable point to the hanger.

In operation it will be seen that as the ear moves forcibly in the direction of one of the hangers the pivoted catch on one end of the car-frame will engage with the notched block H on the track, when said carwill be held in such position until itis desirable to return it to the desired destination. To propel the ear the operator should take hold of the pull-cord I and draw the same until the depending branch (Z of the pivoted catch strikes the arm a of the hanger. In this position the springs F and G, having been bowed, as the catch is removed from the notched block II the spring G will come into action and propel the car with its full force along the track-wire, while the spring F will return the slide-bloek or hook to the position shown in Fig. 1, and ready to engage the car again.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 15-

In a cash and package carrier, the combination, with the hanger A, having the horizontal branch a at its lower end, of the wire track, the spring I secured at one end to the hanger and curved outwardly and thence inwardly and carrying the notched block I I, the spring G, secured at one end to the hanger-and at its opposite end overlapping the wire and arranged in advance of said sliding notched block, a pull-cord attached to the said sliding block, and a car movable on the wire and having the pivoted angular catches E, provided with springs e, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof Iaffix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE THOMAS FARNEL'I). \Yitnesses:

R. W. Woo'rnN, J. l. KELLY. 

